<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, "EmojiFont", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" dir="ltr"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Michael,<br> </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><br> </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I renamed the channels as "Archived" as recommended by you and <span>Dimitri</span>. I guess my thoughts were that it would be nice if I could move the channels to another tab such as the "Retired Channels" because that would get them out of the normal channel list. Just makes the Channels list less cluttered and easier to review. I get kind of anal about keeping things organized. <span>😊</span><br> </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><br> </p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Perhaps once we get all of the SLES 11 SP3 out of our environment, then I can get rid of these channels completely. <br> </p> </div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, "EmojiFont", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" dir="ltr"> <br> </div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, "EmojiFont", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" dir="ltr"> Thank you for the replies.</div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, "EmojiFont", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" dir="ltr"> <br> </div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, "EmojiFont", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" dir="ltr"> Daryl<br> <br> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com> on behalf of Michael Mraka <michael.mraka@redhat.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 12, 2017 5:36 AM<br> <b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] How to retire a channel?</font> <div> </div> </div> <div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div class="PlainText">Daryl Rose:<br> > I've been trying to research this and it appear to me that the "Retired Channel" tab is used only when Red Hat retires a channel in RHN, and the channel would then get retired in Satellite/Spacewalk. Is that correct?<br> <br> Hello Daryl,<br> <br> Yes, that's correct.<br> <br> > What do others do when you are no longer using a channel? Do you delete it, or just leave it? I've considered making a clone of it, so I can rename it, with something like "Archive" or similar in the name so everyone knows that this channel is for references only.<br> > <br> > If I archive the channel, I don't need the corresponding repository, correct? Can I remove that so no one attempts to initiate a sync.<br> > <br> > Any thoughts on the subject?<br> <br> It depends on what you need to achieve:<br> * Do you want to keep channel but mark it visually so no one will use it?<br> Then I'd rename it.<br> * Do you want to keep packages for the reference? If not remove them<br> (from the webUI) and run spacewalk-data-fsck to unlink unused packages<br> from filesystem.<br> * Do you want to remove it completely? 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